Academic Catalog

STAT637 SPATIAL DATA ANALYSIS

Course Code: 2460637
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Statistics
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
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Offered Semester: Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Modeling data with spatial structure. geostatistical data. random fields; variograms. covariance. stationarity. kriging. areal data. spatial regression. SAR. CAR. QAR. MA models. Geary/Moran indices. point patterns. G. F. K. L functions. complete spatial randomness; homogeneous/inhomogeneous processes. marked point processes. spatio-temporal modeling. visualization of spatial data. The programming language R and a few packages for analyzing spatial data will also be introduced.